Course: Behaviour Change Interventions: Introductory Principles and Practice

Welcome! Over the next four weeks you will be introduced to the Behaviour Change Wheel framework, a process for designing or refining behaviour change interventions or policies. This course aims …

To kick off the first week of the course we will think about how to best define key terms such as behaviour, influence and outcome, and look at how these …

We can now think about which Policy Options can be used for different Intervention Types.

In this video, Dr D’Lima introduces the COM-B model. This is a simple model of behaviour that outlines the necessary conditions for a behaviour to occur. In order for a …

The TRED programme identified many different behaviours in the home environment that influenced the amount of energy that is used. It wouldn’t be practical to develop behaviour change interventions to …

The middle circle of the Behaviour Change Wheel concentrates on nine Intervention Types. This video will introduce and define them as well as providing some examples.

You may already know the behaviour or behaviours that you want to change to achieve your goal. Whether or not you do, it is often a good idea to start …

In order to make judgments about A, P, E, A, S and E, we need information. We may already have relevant information but we may want to gather more. We …

Once you have decided what kinds of Intervention Type you want to use to bring about change, the next step is to decide how to implement those interventions. In the …

Having identified potential Intervention Types and Policy Options, the next step is to consider how appropriate each is likely to be for the particular setting you are working in. To …

It is important to consider every possible Intervention Type that could potentially be effective for changing the behaviour of interest, even if we later decide that they are not relevant …

This video will introduce the idea of a COM-B diagnosis and explain how we might gather the necessary information to make a COM-B diagnosis of our target behaviour.

The authors of the Behaviour Change Wheel process recommend that a target behaviour is specified in terms of: Who needs to perform the behaviour? What does the person need to …

This video explains what Behaviour Change Techniques (BCTs) are and provides some examples for learners. It also explains where more information on BCTs and their use can be found.

Once you have collected information about the various Capability, Opportunity and Motivation influences on the target behaviour, you will need to decide which of these to take through to the …